themadcodger

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We learned that last time Trump was president that most of our country has been run on gentlemen's agreements. It was news to a lot of us as well.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

Same. I don't honestly know how we recover as a country. Trump isn't the cause, he's a symptom. A tumour with a much larger cancerous problem underneath. At no point will the sane (and actual majority of us) roll over and become fascists. But at the same time, I don't see how the third of the country that has gone full fascist suddenly regains their sanity and joins us.

The USSR's goal was to divide us, and the Cold War never ended, it just went underground. There is a large part of me that is afraid at this point Balkanization is our future. But how we would we even get there without causing death and destruction?

But regardless of sentiments about losing faith in us (and I don't blame those that feel that way, they are warranted) I do love you all who recognize that not all of us are the insane ones that make it on TV. We do still value our brothers/sisters/enbys to the north and are proud that we have a friendship unparalleled and the world's longest undefended border. The world is a often a dark and scary place, but it's friendships like these that make it worthwhile.

I appreciate you internet stranger.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

You guys are the best. I'm just south of you in the PNW and want us to always have each other's backs.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Yup. The Democratic party is the Republican party of 40 years ago. The Republicans are obviously now literal nazis, fascists, kkk, the worst of the worst. That's all we have and they have no interest in changing that.

Many of us like Sanders because he is a vocal option that is at least left of the status quo. But there are also so many of us that want European left policies. We just can't get it to happen in a winner takes all style of representation. And capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 2 months ago (17 children)

Can some of us, uh, join you though?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Gotta keep that grift going

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Alternative to Silverblue is Bluefin, which is Silverblue repackaged with QoL improvements. I've been using it for a while now and like it in a set it and forget it kind of way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Welcome to distro hopping! If at some point in the future you want to try another out but don't want to start from scratch, there are ways to demo them to get a feel and see if it's something you'd like to take the effort to wipe and install.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No escape, no control, no option.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

And as someone who never closes tabs, I love their tab management, from organization to memory.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In sane times, yes. But US Marshals are a part of the Dept of Justice, which answers to the Executive. So I'll let you guess how that would play out if they were ordered to arrest Trump or anyone else in his circle.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

That still feels like too much thought/reasoning for him. I could see some other idiot connecting those dots and convincing Trump it was his idea. Or just Putin trying to crash the economy.

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